Night

             In Night by Elie Wiesel, the horror of war is displayed through a
             terrifying account of a Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy
             into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his
             God. Night is similar to All Quiet on the Western Front in a number of ways.
             Both have the same main theme. The Horror of War. In both books, innocent
             people were sent off the to be killed. Elie says, "Those whose numbers had
             been noted stood apart, abandoned by the whole world. Some of them were
             weeping" ( 69 ). The ones whose number was called out was sent to the
             awful gas chambers to meet their sure death because they were too weak to
             provide help for the Nazis. Others were called out to become victims of the
             dreaded crematory. Women, children, and the weak were normally the first to
             go. Elie describes her first night as follows: " Never shall I forget that night,
             the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven
             times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget the smoke. Never
             shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into
             wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky" ( 32 ). The sight of the furnace
             and the burning of the humans alive is a terrible thing that no one could ever
             forget. The cruelness of humans is shown in both books by the merciless
             The deaths in the concentration camps are constant and without
             ceasing. People were sent to die for little or no reason. When some died the
             other prisoners were forced to look them in the face. " Then the whole camp,
             block after block, had to march past the hanged man and stare at the dimmed
             eyes, the lolling tongue of death. The Kapos and heads of each block forced
             everyone to look him full in the face" ( 60 ). Desire to live also deteriorated
             just as fast as life did. Being separated from family and being constantly
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